Decision Support News
D. J. Power, Editor
April 12, 2015 Vol. 16, No. 07
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1) What is a recommender system?
2) Recent Decision Support News Headlines
3) Upcoming Decision Support Conferences/Call for Papers
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1) What is a recommender system?
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by Daniel J. Power
Editor, DSSResources.com
A recommender system is a software tool that provides suggestions
to a person for a defined domain or task. The recommendations
may be personalized or general. Such systems have also been called
suggestion models (Alter, 1980) or recommendation systems. Recommender
systems implemented using Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies
are a subcategory of Knowledge-driven DSS (Power, 2007). Also, a
recommender system may be a specialized type of Information Retrieval
(IR) system. Finally, some recommender systems are a type of
information filtering system that seek to predict the 'rating' or
'preference' that a specific user would give to an item or object.
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2) Recent DSS News Headlines
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04/09/2015 Premise Health selects Teradata for cloud-based data warehousing. Check release.
04/09/2015 A new era for purchasing cards compliance as CaseWare Analytics launches new version of monitoring solution. Check release.
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3) Upcoming Decision Support Conferences/Call for Papers/Books
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1. May 14-15, 2015 Midwest Association for Information Systems
Conference, Pittsburg State University. Check the website Click here.
2. August 13-15, 2015 Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), Puerto Rico. Check website Click here.
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